Chris Joseph

1. The “Project netarts.org 2008″

From 1995 to 2003, The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts hosted the “Art on the Net” project promoting the Internet as a space for artistic expression. After the nine years of “Art on the Net,” we launched a new event called the “Project Netarts.org.” The “Project netarts.org” has been calling on artists around the world to investigate together the relationship between Art, the Internet and the Society.

The Exhibition section of the project will feature recent developments in Internet Art and is open to all forms of creative expression that use the Internet as their primary medium.

Although this project is focused on the latest developments in the field of Internet Art, we are also very interested in considering contributions that reflect the influence of Internet Art production on the wider fields of Media-Art, Digital Art, curatorial practice, digital pedagogy, and online publishing.

2. Call for the nomination.

This year, the artworks for the exhibition and the “netarts.org 2008 prize” will be chosen by our Selection Committee. The members of our committee are;

Mark Amerika, Susan Hazan, Agnese Trocchi, John Hopkins, and You Minowa.

The theme this year is “The Ghost in the Machine.” The members will make their own nominations, but we will accept nominations from the web also. Please send your nomination to us directly from http://www.netarts.org/webmuseum.html.

The prize fee for the top selection will be 100,000 yen.

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Call to participate in the 2nd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition (7000 Euros)

MindTrek Conference
October 7-9, 2008 | Tampere, Finland

DEADLINE: 12th September 2008 16:00

http://www.mindtrek.org
http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and the NAMU research group.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:

• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
• What are intelligent media environments like?
• What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:
• Pervasive and ubiquitous games
• Ambient installations
• Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
• Business models
• Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
• Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
• Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
• Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
• Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
• Ambient television
• etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is 7 000€. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2007 are eligible to take part in the competition.

How to participate?

Please check out the website http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi for entry forms and actual information.

In case of questions, please contact:

Dr. Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr [at] tut.fi, Tel.: +358 40 821 0558, Skype: lartur

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GRANTS FOR ARTS WRITERS

Online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008
Deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22

http://www.artswriters.org

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program announces its third round of grants as part of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Initiative.

The online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008 and the deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22, 2008.

The Arts Writers Grant Program recognizes and supports individual writers working on contemporary visual art through project-based grants ranging from 3,000 USD – 50,000 USD. Writers who meet the program’s eligibility requirements are invited to apply for grants in the following categories: articles, short-form writing, and blogs/new and alternative media. (Please note that the program also funds book projects; however, the deadline for applications to this category has already passed.)

For guidelines and eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.artswriters.org

TRANSMEDIALE.09 AWARD COMPETITION

Transmediale and Club Transmediale are calling for submissions to the Transmediale Award competition and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

Transmediale.09 – DEEP NORTH
Festival for art and digital culture

*Transmediale* presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. Transmediale.09 - *DEEP NORTH* peers beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of the often global warming debate and shifts this focus to the global artistic, cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the presumed imminent collapse of the polar ice barrier may trigger.
27 January - 1 February 2009

Club Transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES
Festival for adventurous music and related visual arts

*Club Transmediale* (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the backdrop of technological and social transformations.

With *STRUCTURES* - Backing-Up Independent Audio-Visual Cultures, Club Transmediale.09 presents projects that spring from the critical, interdisciplinary and experimental practice at the intersections of sound and other art forms. In recent years, a new breed of hybrid projects and initiatives that merges experimental audio and media cultures has developed in the convergence-zone between pop culture, science, arts and media technologies.
23 - 31 January 2009

Find the complete call and submission form for download at:
http://transmediale.de/09/pdf/tmctm09_call_for_entries

Deadline: 5 September.
Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009

12th Japan Media Arts Festival is now open for the entry, and we are seeking submissions from you and your friends!

Japan Media Arts Festival has been contributing to the improvement of Japanese culture by recognizing works of excellence in media arts and by providing an opportunity for artists to present their works. It is also very unique festival in the world which takes in the field of art, to entertainment, animation and manga.

We seek dynamic creative works that are opening up a new era, and we eagerly await your submissions.

12th Japan Media Arts Festival Award winning exhibition opens February 4, 2009 at National Art Center, Tokyo,and we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Find the complete call and submission at:
http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2008/

12th Japan Media Arts Festival
4 February – 15 February 2009

http://www.bak-utrecht.nl

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst is currently seeking a committed, visionary curator to fill a newly created position on its team and contribute to its activities. BAK, located in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is an internationally recognized space dedicated to thinking from, about, and through art, and is invested in the exploration and empowerment of two vital relationships: the link between art and the public sphere, and the alliance between artistic practice and theory.

BAK initiates research on diverse subjects of urgency that are key to the pursuit of these crucial relationships in art, and together with artists and other cultural practitioners realizes projects such as exhibitions, lectures, education, publications, and significant productions of new work. BAK places equal emphasis on these diverse activities. Exemplified by practices of participation, discursivity, production, flexibility, fluidity, and criticality, BAK’s approach constitutes a way of thinking and acting, a process of development, and a continuous activation of the possibility of art. BAK understands art in the expanded sense as a uniquely open field of possibilities inside society in which various discourses (aesthetic, cultural, political, social, economic, and others) intersect and exchange.

The ideal curator would feel a strong affinity with BAK’s philosophy and working methods and be ready to contribute her/his energy, intellectual capacities, creativity, vision, and ethical commitment to the diverse tasks at hand. This individual’s interests should be broad, but grounded in a vision of contemporary art as practice in active dialogue with the contemporary world and its concerns. She/he would demonstrate a strong inclination towards the activities of exhibition making and the conception and development of theory and discourse-oriented programs. The curator will have the intellectual independence and confidence to collaborate closely with the artistic director and orient her/himself within a small team and the conceptual framework of BAK, bringing new ideas and possibilities for collaboration to the fore. As continuity is an underlying principle of all BAK’s activities, the curator would readily express a serious, long-term commitment to the position.

Interested individuals are encouraged to contact BAK (info [at] bak-utrecht.nl) for application materials. Completed applications are accepted from the date of this announcement until 8 September 2008. We regret that we are unable to accommodate phone inquiries.

transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH
festival for art and digital culture berlin
27 January - 1 February 2009

club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
23 - 31 January 2009

_Call for Entries_

:: Deadline: 5 September 2008
:: Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009

Find the complete call and submission form for download at:
http://transmediale.de/09/pdf/tmctm09_call_for_entries

*transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH & club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES*

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and club transmediale are calling for submissions to the transmediale Award competition and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

*transmediale* presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques that need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global societies.

*club transmediale* (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the backdrop of technological and social transformations.

For the 2009 edition, the festivals have each set a specific thematic focus.

transmediale.09 - *DEEP NORTH* peers beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of catastrophe prevalent in the often contradictory global warming debate. transmediale.09 shifts this focus to the global artistic, cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the presumed imminent collapse of the polar ice barrier may trigger. Are we about to reach another historically succinct moment of unavoidable and cataclysmic change - a point of no return leaving in its wake uncontrollable global transformations? Does climate change elicit cultural change, a shifting of extremes or a collapse in established, systemic and network norms? DEEP NORTH becomes not a fixed location, but a paradigm transforming loss, scarcity, inertia and rivalry into urgent and revealing states of being and expression.

With *STRUCTURES* - Backing-Up Independent Audio-Visual Cultures, club transmediale.09 presents projects that spring from the critical, interdisciplinary and experimental practice at the intersections of sound and other art forms. In recent years, a new breed of hybrid projects and initiatives that merges experimental audio and media cultures has developed in the convergence-zone between pop culture, science, arts and media technologies. This still remains primarily the domain of committed individuals and small, self-organised groups or networks that, often in the most precarious of circumstances, provide the supporting platform for these new artistic articulations and experiments. In its 10th year, CTM looks into the current state and potential development opportunities of these independent structures.

Together, transmediale and club transmediale invite the submission of works and projects that respond to these challenges and embody contemporary notions of art that embrace, question and enrich digital culture. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2009 while theoretical abstracts, papers and critical artistic positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling ca. 10.000 EURO. Jury members of the transmediale Award 2009 are Annick Bureaud, Paris; Bronac Ferran, London; Juha Huuskonen, Helsinki; Pooja Sood, New Delhi; Christoph
Tannert, Berlin

transmediale is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt :: club transmediale (CTM) is a project of DISK - Sound & Image Initiative e.V. :: transmediale is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation :: CTM is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

transmediale :: Klosterstr. 68 :: D-10179 Berlin
tel. +49 (0)30.24749-761 :: fax. +49 (0)30.24749-763
info[at]transmediale.de :: http://www.transmediale.de

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2nd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition
MindTrek Conference
October 7-9, 2008 | Tampere, Finland
Entry form: http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi
Event website: http://www.mindtrek.org
Award sum: 7000 Euros
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The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia
and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and the NAMU research group.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and
develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a
stand on the following questions, for example:

• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
• What are intelligent media environments like?
• What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:

• Pervasive and ubiquitous games
• Ambient installations
• Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
• Business models
• Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
• Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
• Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
• Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
• Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
• Ambient television
• etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is 7 000€. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2007 are eligible to take part in the competition.

How to participate?

Please check out the website http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi for entry forms and actual information.

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THE OPEN WALL

http://org.ntnu.no/thewall

The Open Wall, a 80 x 30 pixels resolution 201 inch LED screen.

ITovation, a project by the Faculty for Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, NTNU, and Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, TEKS, invites you to an open art competition!

The Open Wall is a wall-mounted LED installation consisting of 96 circuit boards containing 25 orange LED lights each, 2400 in total, with 5 cm distance in all directions to the next light. The wall is 480 cm long and 180 cm high. One goal of the Open Wall project is to inspire reflection about Information and Communication Technology with focus on openness, copyrights, and authorship. The source code governing the Open Wall is available as an open source project on sourceforge.

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Download flyer (pdf)

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